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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
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AIRCRAFTS
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HYDROPLANES
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CURTISS - NC - NANCY
Film
Front view of Nancy Flying Boat, NC-1, NAS Rockaway LI 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Crew working on the engines of NC-1 Rockaway LI - Dec. 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Men at Rockaway NAS line up under the 126 ft. wingspan of the NC-1 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Nancy Boat number one on land 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 and other flying boats at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, LI 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 beinhg towed by a tractor at Rockaway NAS 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 entering the water at Rockaway LI 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 in the air 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 ready for launching 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 side view at launch ramp, Rockaway, Long Island 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-1 taking off at Naval Air Station Anacostia District of Columbia 1917
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Holden C. Richardson
Photo detail
Possibly Commander Holden C. Richardson on the nose of NC-1 in hanger
at Rockway NAS Dec, 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
World's largest aircraft - NC-1 - at Curtiss Eng. Corp., Garden City, NY 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-3 at the Naval Air Station Rockaway, LI 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-3 in the water 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
This ship is the only surviving NC model aircraft
of the four built for the Navy.
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It is on display at
the Smithsonian Museum.
Nancy Four [NC-4] in 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Of the three aircraft,
the US Navy employed
in making the first ever trans-Atlantic crossing,
only Nancy Boat 4 made it from Rockaway NAS
to Plymouth, England
in 1919,
Here is an old film clip showing the NC Hydroplanes used on that trip.
US Navy hydroplane NC-4 at Rockaway NAS 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Arrival of NC-1 and -3 at Halifax on the attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
NC-3 taxiied into Ponta Delgadal Azores
after damage by high seas on the Trans-Atlantic crossing May 31, 1919
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes.
Kees Kort comment
Great picture it shows
the original three engine configuration of
the Curtiss NC-1.
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As the power was too low
for such a large flying boat
it was after much experiments modified to
a four-engined configuration where the central nacelle held two engines,
one driving
a tractor propeller and
the other a pusher propeller.
Mechanics starting the engines, pilot and co-pilot are in the center pod
with gunner in the nest above, NC-1 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes
The view is looking across Jamaïca Bay
to the incinerator plants
on Barren Island.
Curtiss NC-1 at NAS, Rockaway, LI ca1917
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes - on water.
Curtiss NC-1 largest plane in the world in 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes - on water.
Curtiss NC-1 flying boat in the air - 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes - on water.
Curtiss N. C.-1 FLYING BOAT on water. Close-up three-quarter rear view - 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes - on water.
Curtiss Hydroplane NC-1 A-2291 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG-165; Hydroplanes - on water.